While many of the images coming out of Boston recently have been utterly horrifying, others have been equally heroic and uplifting. That pendulum swings wide in both directions.

But one image I saw among the thousands that have flashed across news media in recent days really clicked for me and started me thinking about what's going to be important long term for everyone, whether they were touched directly or indirectly by the horror. It was a still photo, taken near sunrise the morning after the Marathon bombing, of a lone runner stretched out and flying along the Boston side of Charles River.

In the background were two or three rowing shells with multiple oars working in perfect unison to propel those supremely sleek craft along the water. It was a beautiful moment, just a few city blocks away from a crime scene that just hours before had looked more like a war zone.

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